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Lost City of Arabia
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Program Overview
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Ubar is the classic lost city of Arabia. The tale of its splendor
and sudden catastrophic downfall is one of the most colorful of the
Arabian Nights. One of the earliest maps of the region drawn
up by Claudius Ptolemy in 150 AD seems to prove that it really
existed, but the actual site eluded a generation of scholars and
explorers. Drawing on travelers' tales and space-based remote
sensing, an American expedition headed into the vast wasteland of
Oman's Rub' al-Khali desert, the largest sea of sand on earth. Their
dramatic rediscovery of the lost city made headlines around the
world in 1992, and is presented in all its enthralling detail for
the first time on NOVA.
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